LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — State Consultant Emily Dievendorf (D-Lansing) says they’re being harassed and threatened within the wake of the taking pictures demise of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, after a photograph taken of them on the Home ground made rounds on-line.
In an announcement made to social media Friday, Dievendorf says {that a} picture taken of themselves and one other Democratic lawmaker on the Home ground has been circulated on-line to “put a target” on their backs.
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“I have messages suggesting violence to me and my family, telling me to hang myself, and committing to find and share my personal information, including my address,” Dievendorf wrote. “Most of the messages also call me a c—, b—-, w— and awful human being and some say I’m a traitor to my race.”
Shortly after 3 p.m. throughout a Home session on Wednesday, State Rep. Bradley Slagh (R-Zeeland) introduced to the Home that Kirk had been shot and requested to say a prayer, which was allowed.
6 Information has reviewed a photograph circulating on social media that seems to indicate Dievendorf and one other lawmaker sitting throughout what seems to be a prayer being held on the Home ground. Video taken from the official Home web site doesn’t clearly present the 2 sitting throughout prayer.
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Dievendorf says the picture presently circulating on-line was taken in violation of Home guidelines.
A number of posts on social media moreover declare the 2 lawmakers had been “snickering” through the prayer, calling them “hateful” and “shameful.” Nevertheless, Dievendorf says in any other case.
“And yet even in the photo being shared I’m solemn and looking down at my desk. I was serious then and I’m serious now because the escalation of violence is hurting all of us,” wrote Dievendorf.
Dievendorf says that whereas they “never” supported Kirk’s politics, additionally they don’t assist political violence in any means.
“Today, I am sad for the family of Charlie Kirk. And I am mourning the collective peace and safety that slips further away each time violence erupts,” wrote Dievendorf. “In bowing my head, I honored the seriousness of the moment and the weight of a human life lost. That reverence can exist without celebrating the harm Mr. Kirk caused in his lifetime.”
Dievendorf is one in all a number of Michigan officers which have reported they’ve obtained threats within the wake of Wednesday’s occasions, amongst them being Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist II and State Sen. Jeremy Moss.
